After kidnapping Ruby from her world, the two goddesses went straight back to their native world with their catch. They had to take good care of sneaking into their room though, for if Mother were to find out what they'd done she would flip out in ways that not even the goddess of space and time can comprehend. Lucky for them, Mother wasn't home though they were still wary of what if she found out. The only comfort they had was that Mother herself rarely kept an eye on the timelines as that was left to her daughters. Mother herself spent her time doing her motherly duties to the sisters while patiently waiting for the final timeline to occur.

"Alright, now what do you want to do with our newest toy?" Venus asked her sister, eyeing the unconscious Ruby with the delighted look of victory on their rather easily done accomplishment. Aeon did not respond at first, for she was still couldn't believe what they'd done and was honestly just kind of fangirling right now. Collecting merchandise and souvenirs here and there is one thing, but getting the actual character? That's something legendary and coveted right there.

"Sister? Hello?" Venus asked, getting annoyed with Aeon's shaking and slight squealing in place.

"O-oh! Right! I uh, just got preoccupied there..." Aeon laughed nervously before getting to the matter at hand. "Hmm... we want to place her in our world, but we can't have her in any of the existing timelines." She mused, before coming up with a simple idea. "Let us create a whole new timeline just for her."

"Obviously, that's kinda what we decided on anyway..." Venus rolled her eyes, just wondering how clueless her sister, a goddess for crying out loud, could be sometimes. Aeon paid no mind to her sister's snarkiness though, as the thought of a fresh timeline where the fact that she was a goddess who knew everything wouldn't spoil it for herself. So the sisters came together, and easily created a new timeline in, well, no time at all. It was really simple and easy for the goddesses for obvious reasons...

This new timeline starts like any of the existing ones with Marie in New Meridian and the various other candidates wandering about the city after her, but as said before, the sisters did not know how this one will end. With the new timeline ready, Venus got ready to dump Ruby into the world of Skullgirls... until Aeon stopped her.

"Ugh, what now?" Venus groaned, casting a lazy look to her sister who seemed worried like how she was earlier.

"What about her friends?" She asked.

"What about them? There's no possible way for them to come and help her." Venus reasoned.

"True, but we still just kidnapped a main character, and they all saw us do it! Don't you think it's going to mess things up in that world without her and that they saw us?" Aeon reasoned back. "I understand you like to cause trouble Venus, but remember that we have to return the girl once we're done with her. Who knows how long that will take though? I'm afraid-Mphm!" Aeon was suddenly hushed when her sister put a finger on her lips.

"One, you worry too much. Two, hold her. I'll be back..." With that said, Venus carelessly tossed Ruby into Aeon's arms before stepping into a sharp toothed portal, disappearing from the scene. Aeon held her arm out in an attempt to stop her, but it was too late. She would've worried about what Venus was up to, but then she was made aware that she was holding Ruby Rose herself. The fangirling continues...

Remnant, Mercs' House

Everyone remained where they stood when that monster took Ruby, too stunned to even move. It was so sudden, so strange, and so unexpected that nobody knew how to react. How could anyone react to it? It's not everyday when some kind of eldritch entity snatches your friend and takes them to God knows where! Unless you're the mercenaries, but those guys don't count since it's Merasmus making the eldritch monsters do it and it only happens once in a while.

The total time elapsed between Ruby's abduction and disappearance to now was exactly one minute, but it felt like months only because the shocked brains couldn't comprehend anything after witnessing that.

"...WHAT JUST HAPPENED!?" Yang managed to break the silence with a loud scream, snapping everyone else out of it as well. "RUBY!" Cried the blonde in a shrill shriek of despair.

"I-it just took her!" Weiss shook.

"Why did it turn into a girl?" Blake trembled, that being the only thing she can think of saying now.

The mercenaries themselves weren't much better, and if anything they were actually more angry than dumbfounded/surprised out of their wits. While the remnants of Team RWBY tried to understand what just happened while also despairing that Ruby was taken without even a fight, the nine members of Team Fortress were groaning and complaining in anger that Venus just kidnapped Ruby and destroyed their freaking house! It took a while to break this place into their comfort, but then this bitch comes in and literally breaks the place! It was infuriating, and soon their anger was beginning to rub off onto the members of Team RWBY.

Just then, before they can make up any plan to save Ruby despite not knowing a single clue about where she could be, another huge teeth filled portal opened up, and the same female figure who took Ruby peered into reality. Recognizing the figure, Teams RWBY and Fortress grabbed their weapons and pointed up at her.

There were no sounds of gunshots, or any other sound of combat though. Venus just 'fixed' the world. With only the snap of her fingers, Venus disappeared as fast as she appeared and left the teams to whatever they were doing before. The house was totally fixed as if nothing had ever happened, and everyone was down in the living room like how they were when they returned from the mission. Everyone except Ruby, of course...

"Man, that was a tough fight..." Yang yawned, getting comfortable on one of the mercs' couches alongside the other members of her team.

"Yeah, but we pulled through and that's what matters." Blake said, also as exhausted as her teammates.

"If only Ruby wasn't on that student exchange trip to Mistral. She would've loved us fighting together as a team." Weiss said, to which they all agreed. Within a short time, the girls of Team RWBY minus the R fell asleep on the comfort of the mercenaries' couch, content with a job well done and a much deserved rest at the end of it.

However, the mercenaries weren't as positive feeling as the girls...

"What in Sam Hill just happened?" Said the resident Texan man of science for the whole of his horribly confused team.

Venus returned as quickly as she left, stepping back into their shared room.

"Alright, I made up some random excuse and fixed that house I wrecked. Happy... now?" Venus trailed, raising a legitimately uncertain brow at Aeon for the normally quiet and somewhat shy girl was taking pictures of herself and the unconscious Ruby. Upon noticing her sister had returned, Aeon had frozen in place in the middle of a shot of Ruby and her having their shoulders across each other as if they were best friends, even if Ruby was obviously not conscious.

"Uh... souvenirs?" Aeon nervously laughed, taking this one last picture of her and Ruby before getting back to business.

"Right... anyway, I made sure her friends don't suspect a thing. They think she's on a student exchange program." Venus explained to her sister. "So let's stop talking and get this thing started already!"

New Meridian

In a dark alley in the backstreets of downtown New Meridian, a girl is unceremoniously and ungraciously dropped onto the hard floor. The poor girl was totally unconscious, unaware of how or why she was here. If she had been awake, she'd have seen two girls looking down at her with rather devious smiles on their faces. Aeon and Venus were quite content with what they pulled off, and now the sisters were eager to see what kind of trouble this girl could stir up.

"Have fun now!" Venus yelled down before she closed the teeth-lined portal.

A mere moment later, and Ruby Rose of Remnant wakes up to find herself in her current surroundings.

"Ugh... my head..." She groaned.

There was a sensation in her head that she could only describe as feeling like someone took a chunk of her brain out. The pain itself was little more than a headache, but it was just so disorienting to her since there was no memory of what happened mere minutes ago. Ruby stood shakily on her feet and looked around the alley, massaging her head to ease the strange sensation. Almost instinctively, she felt behind her lower back for where her baby, Crescent Rose was holstered and breathed a sigh of relief upon feeling the cold yet warm to her fingers metal of the weapon.

"Where am I?" She managed to say upon realizing that this was most definitively not the mercs' house.

That was the last location she remembered she was at before now. It was clear and obvious to her that she was in a city since she could hear the sounds of cars and people from either side of the alley, and especially since that was the biggest source of light for her. There was definitely the odd shapes of cars with their headlights rolling by, and she could also see the silhouettes of people against those lights.

"Weiss? Yang? Blake? Professors? Anyone!?" She called out, but got no response from anything at all. It appeared like she was alone in the alleyway with no one else but her. Well, there was a homeless man in a martial arts outfit that she found sleeping beside a punching bag with eyes, but Ruby decided to let him be and continue to the street.

It was like walking down a dark tunnel with a bright light at the end, and Ruby had to shield her eyes once she was fully exposed to the lights of the streets. Once her eyes adjusted, it became clear right away that she was indeed in some city, and deep downtown for that matter. Deciding to find out where she was once and for all, she stepped out into the light of the street.

Nothing seemed too out of the ordinary so far, just older model looking cars and people on the street at a glance. So, in a bid to find out where she was, Ruby turned around, and-

*CRASH*

...walked into someone.

"Hey, watch it kid!" A gruff male voice yelled. The walk-in had both of them stumbling back with only the other person falling on their back.

"Oh! I'm sorry sir! I didn't mean to... to..." Ruby trailed.

Her eyes had gone wide, for the man she just accidentally knocked down was no ordinary man as far as she was concerned. The person she just knocked down wasn't a Human or a Faunus, but rather a full on wolfman. He looked just like a wolf except in the shape of a Human! The head was that of a wolf, his hands were clawed, his feet were paws, he was for all intents and purposes a wolf who walked and spoke like a person! He was even wearing clothing in the form of suit tailored made to fit his proportions.

"What are you looking at? Damn, you got my suit dirty..." Groaned the wolfman as he picked himself up and dusted himself off. "Out of the way! I got things to do..." He growled at her before rudely shoving her aside and walking right along the direction he was earlier.

"...bump into you." Ruby finally finished. She was just so caught off guard by the encounter, that she didn't even hear any of the things he was saying to her.

Ruby ended up wandering around the streets aimlessly after that encounter. People with animal features were not unheard of on Remnant since the Faunus exist, but people who literally look like walking animals? That's a little much for Ruby, and she just needed some time to take it in. But there was so much more to take in than just that wolfman she bumped into. This whole city was just… strange.

She didn't notice it at her first. but other than the wolfman there were all sorts of people who were plain weird looking to her. A lot of people she saw appeared to be plain Humans and some looked like regular Faunus, which she was glad for, but other people looked like walking fish, cyborgs, vaguely demon-like, and have things Ruby can't even describe. Near the center of the city she could see an unnecessarily massive skyscraper that towered above every other building and was easily taller than any building she's ever seen in her life. Airships that resembled blimps can be seen against the night sky, and speaking of which, the night was also how she knew that she wasn't in Remnant anymore. There was no shattered moon in the sky.

There was so much for her to take in, and so much to wonder about.

Just where in the world was she? Was she on Earth, the mercenaries' home universe? Possibly, since there was little to nothing in this city that she recognized, but she thought the mercs said one time that there were just Humans only on Earth. Maybe she was in an entirely different world altogether?

So many questions but no answers to them. There was one thing that Ruby was certain about. She was alone in an unfamiliar city with none of her friends in sight.

She continued to wander around the darkly lit streets with these questions on her mind, wary of meeting any people here since for one: Ruby wasn't really one to go out and meet new people anyway, and two: she was afraid of what the people of this world were like.

"Well hello there, little lady..." A male voice called out to her. Ruby yelped when an arm was suddenly wrapped around her and a total stranger got up in her personal space. Turning her head to look at whoever this was, she saw that it was a rather tall man with dark brown hair, mustache, and thin beard. "Fancy seeing a cute gal like you out here tonight." The man said, putting his other hand on Ruby's face and pulling her closer to him. Whoever he was, Ruby got increasingly uncomfortable and angry as this man was proving to be quite the pervert.

"Get off me!" Ruby demanded, struggling to break out of his hold.

"Whoa there! No need to be so aggressive sweetheart..." The man said with a grin that Ruby hated. It was the same kind of grin that people who think they're better than you make, and she had little tolerance for that.

"Hey!" Another, this time more deeper male voice yelled. Whoever the voice belonged to, it instantly made this pervert lock up in fear before running away from the area. Ruby was rudely dropped to the ground when he ran, but she was at least glad that he wasn't around anymore.

"Creep..." She muttered out as she watched him leave before turning to her savior. "Hey, thanks a lot for... helping, me..." This city just kept getting weirder, because the deep manly voice apparently came from this young girl in a schoolgirl's uniform that barely fit her. The uniform exposed her belly, the buttons struggled to stay together, her skirt was dangerously short due to how it was too small for her, she had some rather large thighs, her hair was jet black and highly stylized, and she had red eyes. This girl didn't look to be much older than Ruby's age, but why did she sound like a man?

"No problem!" The girl smiled, reaching an arm out to help her up.

...or not.

The girl spoke in a decidedly not manly voice. Instead, she sounded like how she looked, that being a girl of course. Hesitantly due to being weirded out by the voices, Ruby took her helping hand."But you should really thank Samson for that. He's the one who chased him off after all."

"It was nothing, kid." The same gruff voice from earlier said, but Ruby didn't see where it was coming from. Only that it was coming from the nice girl who helped her up.

"My name's Filia." The kind girl introduced herself. "What's yours?"

"I'm Ruby Rose." Answered our huntress. "It's nice to meet someone who's friendly around here." She said in relief, but then Ruby couldn't help but awkwardly try to look behind Filia for the source of the male voice.

"Um, what are you looking for?" Filia asked.

"Oh! Sorry, but uh... if you don't mind me asking, where's that voice coming from?" Ruby asked politely, to which the response she got caught her off guard. It wasn't so much of a response more than it was this mysterious voice telling Filia something, though it still shook her because she didn't know where it was coming from.

"Alright, come on kid. We're wasting time here." The gruff voice said.

"Just wait, Samson, I'm talking to someone here." Filia said, seemingly speaking to an invisible person as far as Ruby is concerned. "Sorry about that, Samson can be a little impatient." Filia gingerly laughed.

"Right, but who and where is Samson?" Ruby asked, wanting to put an end to this mystery once and for all.

"Hmm? Oh yeah! Sorry, but when you get used to having Samson around like me, it's easy to forget where he is." She gave a sly smile, before rotating her body around just enough for the back of her head to show. "Samson, be nice and introduce yourself." She ordered. To Ruby's horror, this nice and somewhat normal girl had a huge mouth on the back of her head! It wasn't just a mouth either, but a face with only no nose. There were two large completely yellow eyes on her dark hair, and the mouth was full of razor sharp teeth. It also seemed to have total control of Filia's hair as it would sometimes make Filia's hair move around in tiny tentacle looking locks. The worst part? IT COULD TALK.

"Humph, what am I, a dog?" Samson grumbled, his yellow eyes locking with Ruby's silver ones. "Yeah, yeah, hi..." The face greeted not too enthusiastically, waving a large tendril of black hair as a lazy greeting. "Can we go now? Time's a wasting!"

"Samson, I said be nice!" Filia scolded her hair. "She's one of the only nice people we've met and you're going to be rude to her! I'm sorry Ruby, but Samson's a little grumpy." Filia explained as she turned back around to face the huntress. Only to see that Ruby had passed out.

This was too much for our huntress, and Ruby had fainted from this weird encounter. Once again, in the span of an hour, Ruby had fallen completely unconscious.

Alright, decided to leave this story here in this crossover section since the focus will be on the Skullgirls cast and Ruby... for the most part. Not sure on details but we'll see as it progresses. Also, official title change.

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